Combination-tool.



No. 870,672. PATBNTED Nov. 12, 1907. o. o. PRINK @L F. W. SGANLINGCOMBINATION TOOL.

APPLIoATIoN FILED mlm. 1907.

W/77V5SSES.' /A/l/E/VTO/S UNITED STATES FiITENT OFFICE.

ORTON O. FRINK AND FRANK W. SCANLING, OF CHRISMAN, ILLINOIS.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented NOV. 12, 1907.

. Application filed January 7.1907. Serial No. 351.271.

v To all whom it may concern:

at Chrisrnan, in the county oi Edgar and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invent-ion relates to improvements in a combination tool, and theobject of the invention is to provide a practical and convenient toolwith a hammer head at one end for driving, and with a device at theother end which is adapted for drawing' fence staples, tightening iencewires, and removing weather-boarding, box-covers, and nailed boards ot'all kinds, and Which is particulary efficient as a nail puller.

We accomplish the objects of our invention by the device illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, which also illust-rate a 'few of the manyuses to which our invention may be applied.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals ofreference indicate like parts throughout the several views,-Fignre 1 isa top plan view of our invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view oi' the same.Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing its use as a staple extractor forWire fences. Fig. Il is a view oi' a box corner showing the use ol ourtool Afor drawing thevnails.

Our tool will preferably be made out or' steel or iron.

7 represents the body of the tool, and 8 a doubleended hammer-head, atone end of the body, which also serves as a handle when the other end ofthe tool is used. The opposite end of the body 7, from the head 8, isprovided with the flat, outwardly pointed wedge or chisel 9. This end isprovided with the deep notch l0, terminating at its inner end with ataper, the purpose oi which slot is to allow the wedge-end to Astraddlenails, staples, and the like, which are to be drawn. The end 9 is madetapering so as to be used as a wedge to be driven into cracks betweenboards or other objects nailed together, and which are to be separated.yBy forcing the end 9 into the cracks, the

removal et' the nails, holding the parts together, will be started. Forpulling the nails after they have thus been started, we prefer to usethe pulling device on the side of the end 9. A round-bottom notch 12 isformed in the thick part ol the wedge 9, in from one face of the wedge,and extending nearly but not quite through the thickness of the wedge,as is clearly shown in Fig. 2. A diamond shaped hole Il is then formedin the bottom of the notch l2, and a slot to the outside, of the holelil, is formed so as to provide a pair of opposed prongs, the slotleading into the hole 14 permits the stem or body of the nail to bedrawn to pass when the head may be too large to go through the hole I4.AS the hole 14 tapers both ways from this entering slot it is o bviousthat the tool may be either pushed or pulled under the head oi' the nailto engage it for removal by an upward movement of the end 8 of the tool.This slot will also allow the tool to pull wire staples from fence-postswhen the wire has been broken, as shown in Fig. 3.

The illustrations show onl)r a few oi the many uses to which thisconvenient tool will lend itself, and its construction and operation areso obvious that further v description is deemed unnecessary.

Having thus fully described our invention what we claim as new and wishto secure by Letters Patent of the United States is A tool provided inits face with a notch or dent; the bottom of said dent being providedwith a perforation formed haringiy from its ends towards the center ofthe dent, and having a side entrance thereto from the edge of the tooland communicating' with the central portion of the perforation, andforming' thereby a pair of opposed prongs which terminate in a featheredge.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seais atIndianapolis, Indiana, this 27th day of December, A. D. one thousandnine hundred :1nd six.

ORTON O. FRINK. FRANK W. SCANLING.

